Edgo Energy has announced that it has secured licences for the Qarordon and Surkhsimo (formerly called Karadum and Kyziltumshuq respectively) blocks in Tajikistan and has also signed a service agreement with Klarenco, a Moscow-based subsurface interpretation company

ShaMaran Petroleum has completed the drilling of well CK-8 and mobilises to drill the next well in appraisal programme as drilling and operations at the Atrush development in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq steam-roller on

SapuraKencana Energy Sarawak (SKE), a wholly-owned subsidiary of SapuraKencana Petroleum, has made another gas discovery from Bakong-1, the fifth and final well in its 2014 drilling campaign within the SK408 Production Sharing Contract (PSC) area, offshore Malaysia